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Friday, July 9, 2010

Ontario, Super Mario

Hey everyone!

Sorry it's been so long. Internet access is SO hard to find for a traveller in Canada unless you knock on people's houses (which I'm not partial for). I'll give you a brief layout of what's been happening.

Moosejaw to Grenfell (regina, indian head, grenfell)
-day off in Regina
-tents flooded in the middle of the night in Grenfell because of storm 1 and ended up in a motel. Grenfell...is umm...NOT a place I want to go back to.
-chewed up by mosquitoes, noseeums, and black flys

Grenfell-Winnipeg (moosomin, miniota, minnidosa, portage, winnipeg)
-day off in grenfell because of thunder storm 2
-put in the moosomin newspaper and stayed the night at the reporters house
-a lot of broken spokes on Christian's new bike
-christian hitch hiking to Winnipeg to get his bike fixed
-Jeremy, Megan and I caught in thunder storm 3 on our way to portage le prairie
-Jenna hitch hiking the rest of the way to portage (20km)
-Thunder storm 4 into winnipeg
-Thunder storm 4 into winnipeg
-free showers from someone who lived in Miniota who later accused us for stealing her phone...

Winnipeg-Thunder Bay (pine creek, kenora, vermillion bay, dryden, ignace, upsala, thunder bay)
-Cycled with a guy named Julian from Victoria for three days
-Got to our half way mark!
-Entered Ontario!
-Cycled with a guy named Ben from Britian for ...well it's been over a week and he's still with us!!
-Cycled with a guy named Johannes from Germany for one day
-Caught in Storm number 5 that lasted 5 hours
-Jeremy's back tire popped so he hitch hiked into Thunder Bay (100Km)
-Another broken spoke on Christian's bike an he hitch hiked to thunder bay(90km)
-day off in Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay - Terrace Bay (Nipigon, Rossport, Terrace Bay)
-we've been hitting some very steep and long climbs again and it feels like we're back in the fraser canyon...or even the rockies at times
-rossport people are unwelcoming but the beach was beautiful
-terrace bay is beautiful

2 comments:

  1. so sorry to hear about all the bad weather. I hope Ontario's skies are more welcoming. Any idea how many km you've biked so far? And Jere....I can't believe you hitch hiked. -L

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  2. Hey guys...we hope that all is going well...we've been thinking about you all a lot and hope that things continue to run smoothly.

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